Hombres eatin’ grub
in Heritage Court at the Autry last Saturday night were made mighty happy when
lawyer Dee Yarnall sashayed up to the mike and told her compadres in the Cowboy
Lawyers Association that she and sidekick Jeff Brooks will be getting hitched
in April.

She told ’em
that Brooks—an hombre who works UBS Financial Services in these here parts and
has the title of “director”—proposed to her a short spell ago on one of them
Cowboy Lawyer horseback rides.

Well,
folks at the shindig then kicked up their heels and danced to western music
played by the Steve Woods Band. And a lot of them made their way over to the
betrothed wranglers to wish ’em “happy trails.”

Below
is one of them new-fangled digital-Daguerreotypes of the two:

Yarnall
has her shingle a’hanging at her office in Santa Clarita, and also learns
students how to argue cases, teaching oral advocacy at Glendale University
College of Law, where she got her own sheepskin awhile back.

Jim
Nichols, who’s with an outfit called Bonne Jones Bridges, was also a happy
feller. He was sworn in, for the fourth time, as Cowboy Lawyers president.

He
was the first of them presidents and had a heap lot to do with the band of
horse-riding lawyers being formed.

Here
he is with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rita “Sunny” Miller next to him.
(Now, let’s get it straight that he plunked hisself down at the table for a
short spell just to say “howdy,” then hopped, quick, back to the table with his
wife.)

A
whole bunch of guys and gals who had been president were there, whoopin’ it up.
Here’s two of them—Mary Bennett Denove and Jack Denove, who’s podners in both
law and marriage:

The
next Cowboy Lawyers ride will be March 28 in Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan
Capistrano, nine days after the swallows are expected to be arriving back there
after wandering somewhere, yonder. Ride bosses are going to be cowpersons Laura
Taylor, Alyssa Schabloski, and Brian Faulkner.